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Foxlink’s AI Robot Dog Leads Its AI Shift to North America
Taiwan’s Foxlink is no longer just a connector maker. Backed by in-house compute and a lean robotics team, the company is betting on Robot-as-a-Service to take its transformation global—starting with robot dogs in North America.
By MengHsuan Yang , 鄧凱元
Foxlink, a longtime connector manufacturer, is pivoting from hardware to AI-enabled services. Its most visible—and mobile—symbol of that transformation is Jeff, a patrol robot dog now roaming the corridors of its headquarters. Every night, three of these autonomous quadrupeds take shifts, reducing the need for human security. They ride elevators, patrol all eight floors, and flag unfamiliar faces via facial recognition.
It’s a dramatic shift for a company once seen purely as a legacy OEM. In just over a year, Foxlink has become one of Taiwan’s fastest-moving AI players—launching its own AI supercomputing center and deploying a working robot dog in real-world environments.
The Making of Foxlink’s AI Strategy
The transformation began with Freddy Kuo (郭守富), special assistant to the chairman and son of Chairman TC Gou (郭台強). Trained in business management in Seattle and formerly involved in venture capital, Kuo returned to Foxlink to lead overseas factory planning. Observing idle capacity in Taiwan due to U.S.-China trade tensions, he proposed pivoting toward AI.
“Why stay on the sidelines when we can build it ourselves?” he recalls.
Foxlink partnered with Japanese cloud streaming firm UBidata and hardware providers like ASUS to construct a high-performance computing (HPC) center in just three months.
With compute secured, Kuo launched SYNC Robotics, a robotics-focused subsidiary aimed not at parts or contract manufacturing, but at building robot “brains.”
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